The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-28
DIED Denying 1T.
Annef Green, Before Being Lynehed Pro.
tested His Innocence of the Murder OF
LueIla Mabbitt; and Declared that the
Girl was Still AIive-Goternor Gray In
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amer Green, Before Being LyHehed Pro.
tested His Innocence of the Murder OF
Luella Mabbitt; and Declared that the
Girl was Still 1tIive-Goternor Gray In
H3snAnfl
DELPHI, Ind, Oct 23.-About midnight
Friday mob of $50 men attacked the jail
here and took away the prisoner, Amer
Green, Confined there aid aNaitiug trial for
abduction and the murder of Luella Mabbitt.
There has been little fear Of a ly1fching an5
the shetite hat tskel n5 exttta piedsstaitti6its
The mob was organized in the eastern part
of Carroll County and in Cass County from
the vicinity of Yonng America where Green
and his victim lived They came in about
sevepty-fte wagons and on horseback
and were armed to the teeth They made
| no demand of the sheriff until after break
| ing in the wooden door leading to his apart
D.eats fhey then asked for the keys to
| the Jail and were denied
With a sledge- hammer the iron doors
were broken open and the prisoner secured
| He resisted with all his giant power,
but was overpowered, bound and hurried
| into a covered wagon held In waita
ing TIE #hib Vas 8ppfieH and the
horses driven at full speed across Deer
| creek, south of the town, where other
teams were waiting. The procession then
started for Walnut grove, about seven
miles east where the lynching o5otirred-
When the mob reached the scene of the
| hanging twa b6nfires were burning there:
i hope you are not going to burn me- sU+
| have come out here to murder me
and are going to do it, but do it
| lie civilized men" s'Give him the
stake!" BURN him!'' Torture a con-
| fession out of hiln!" came from the crowd.
| The leader of the mob to d Green he must
either produce Luella Mabbitt or die He
called for Mr.. Mabbit the father of the
missing girl, and, stand ng face to
| face with him, stated that huella was alive
and living with man 1ia1ded Samuel Paie;
| at Fort Worth, Tex He was asked why
he had not produced her, and said his
| attorneys advised him to the con-
tfary. Convinced that he was lying,
a rope was stretched around his neck
by the mob, and he was drawn under the
tree. Green stood up ON the seat as
erect as a statue, his hands pinioned and
the rope so tightly drawn that he was al
most ehoked He declared his innocence
and asked that his mother be in:
formed of his fate and that he be
| buried by the side of his sister at Hebron
| o. The horses gave lurch forward, and
Amer Green was suspended between earth
and sky. His body was cut down at 6
| o'clock Saturday morning, after it had been
| viewed by thousands
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct Ex-Governor
Gray sent Saturday to Sheriff n W. Van
Gundy, of Delphi, Ind, severe letter call
! ing attention to the facts that ain attempt tt
| lynch Amer Green was made at Logansport
| and that Green was taken to State prison
for safe-keeping. He then says:
| II do not understand how you could have
| failed under the circumstances to take meas
/ ures to prevent the Te=enaetment OF mob VIC
! lence, which is rapidly bringing the State o.
Indiana into public disgrace. The prisoner was
| In the custody of the law, and in your Gus
/ tody as sworn officer of the law, anG
| you were under official obligations to give the
| prisoner full protection of the law, and the
/ people of Indiana have a right to expect that
| sworn officer of the law in possession of infor
| nation that you were in possession of, and sur
| rounded by the circumstances that surrounded
/ you, would feel that it was his duty to see that
| the law was duly executed and not tramplet
under foot by mob violence"
| He closes with the expression of d hope
that the lynchers will be punished
| DELPHI, Ind, Oct 24.-The story told by
| Amer Green just before he was swung into
eternity is not believed by those best &C
| quainted with him and his case
The statement that Luella Nab
bitt was still alive and living under the
Gaze Of one Samuel Payne in Fort Worth
Tex, is considered only a ruse to avert the
lynching Inquiry at Fort Worth has so fal
failed to discover either Luella Mabbitt OF
any such person as Payne. Governor
/ Gray's letter to Sheriff Van Gundy
has aroused strong indignation against
| the Governor His censure, it is
claimed, is based on an assumption of facts
| that did not exist
Amer Green was one of the most desper-
ate criminals that ever afflicted Indiana. In
August, 1886, he abducted and is supposed
to have murdered Lucia Mabbitt, farm.
er's daughter He was captured in
Texas last July, with his brother. Bill
Green, also a murderer, and both were
taken to Michigan City for protection from
mob violence. Bill Green is now on trial in
Miami County, and Amer's case would have
come up here yesterday ON motion for
change of venue.